Quotes

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.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

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.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.