Prison Quotes

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You've got to be willing to look at a guy's face and say I will kill you if I have to. You've got to be… — Bernard Hopkins
Smokey Wilson was like my Gandhi. If I had run into somebody else in prison, with a different set of values, the world might have… — Bernard Hopkins
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme… — Vincent Van Gogh
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you… — Barbara Brown Taylor
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I… — Fernando Flores
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect,… — Jack Abbott
One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed. — David Travis
Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society. — James Anthony Froude
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. — Juvenal
Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names. — Ouida
Justice renders to every one his due. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where… — Samuel Johnson
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail. — Philip Sidney
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few. — Unknown Author
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. — William Gilmore Simms
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which… — Richard Whately
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion. — George Washington
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert. — Aristotle

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