Quotes

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

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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.

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

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

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.