Quotes

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.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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.”

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

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