Quotes

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

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.

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

Vices are not crimes.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.