Prison Quotes
1427 quotes by 977 authors
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Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
— John Y. Campbell
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I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
— John Quincy Adams
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
— Cesare Pavese
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Pardon is the virtue of victory.
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
— Claudius Claudianus
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The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
— Unknown Author
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Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
— Mazo de la Roche
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Crimes generally punish themselves.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
— Christopher Love
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A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.
— Ronnie Corbett
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
— William Penn
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I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
— Cybill Shepherd
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