Quotes

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

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

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

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.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.