Quotes

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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