We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
