Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
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Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
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 tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
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
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.