Quotes

One crime is everything; two nothing.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

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

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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