Quotes

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

No crime has been without a precedent.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

No man should be judge in his own case.