Quotes

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.