Quotes

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

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.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

I have never been contained except I made the prison.