Quotes

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Vices are not crimes.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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