Quotes

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

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

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

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.