Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
Man is condemned to be free.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
