Quotes

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.