There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
