Quotes

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

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 world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

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.