Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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!

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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