Quotes

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

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

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

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

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

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.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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.

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.