Quotes

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

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 have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

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

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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.

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

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.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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.