Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
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!
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
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.
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.
Vices are not crimes.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
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.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
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.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
