Quotes

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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.

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.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.