Quotes

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Vices are not crimes.

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

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

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

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

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

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.