Quotes

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 just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

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.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Vices are not crimes.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.