Quotes

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

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

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

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.

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

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

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.