He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
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.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
