Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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.
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.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
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.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
