Quotes

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.