Quotes

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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