Quotes

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.