Quotes

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.