Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

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.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.