Quotes

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.

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.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.