Quotes

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

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

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

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.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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.

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

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.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.