Quotes

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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

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.

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.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

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