Quotes

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

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

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

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.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

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 perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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