Quotes

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

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

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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