Quotes

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

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

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.

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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!

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.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

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

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.