Quotes

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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.

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 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.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.