Quotes

Vices are not crimes.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.