Quotes

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

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

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

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

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.