Quotes

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

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

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

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.