Quotes

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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.

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

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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

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.

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

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

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.

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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