Quotes

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

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.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.