Quotes

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.