Quotes

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

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.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.