Quotes

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

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.

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.