Quotes

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.