Quotes

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

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.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.