Quotes

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Vices are not crimes.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

No man should be judge in his own case.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.