Quotes

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

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 can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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.”

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.