Quotes

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.