Quotes

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

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

No crime has been without a precedent.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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!

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 public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.