Quotes

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

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

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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