Quotes

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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%.

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.

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.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

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

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

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.