Quotes

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a 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.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

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

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.