Chance Quote by Bhagat Singh

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

— Paul Eldridge

The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any…

— Alice Morse Earle

“I wished them the harshest depths and punishments of hell, all of them, but only because the punishment should fit the crimes. I can’t…

— M. Nova

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it…

— Nellie Bly

I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it…

— Lauren Kate

“Put 'em who threaten possessions and power together with 'em who offend our tastes in sex and dope. Those who're touched, put 'em in…

— John Cage

“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware…

— Pascal Bruckner

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by…

— Peter Kropotkin

Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which have been raining down…

— Peter Kropotkin

“The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed…

— Iain Pears

“the inquisitors of yesteryear knew only too well, as do the country snatchers of today: torture is useless for protecting people. It is only…

— Eduardo Galeano

Prison is what really radicalized me most deeply. I remember thinking, my God, these people did things that were no worse than what other…

— David Dellinger