Quotes

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.