Quotes

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

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

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

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.