Quotes

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.