Quotes

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

He who profits by a crime commits it.