Quotes

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

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.

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.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.