Quotes

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Vices are not crimes.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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