Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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

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.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Man is condemned to be free.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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