Quotes

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Man is condemned to be free.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.