Quotes

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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.

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.