Quotes

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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

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.