Prison Quotes

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

The formative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Frequent punishments are always sign of weakness or laziness on the part of the government.

Punishment brings wisdom. It is the healing art of wickedness.

Whilst we have prisons it matters little which of us occupies the cells.

Prisons were built with stones of law, brothers with bricks of religion.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.