Quotes

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.