Quotes

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Justice renders to every one his due.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

One crime is everything; two nothing.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.