Quotes

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.