Quotes

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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 don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

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.

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

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.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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%.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.