Quotes

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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