Quotes

A sick person is a prisoner.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Vices are not crimes.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

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.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Justice renders to every one his due.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

No man should be judge in his own case.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.