Quotes

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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.

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.