Prison Quotes

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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. — Henry Ward Beecher
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison. — Epictetus
It is grievous to be caught. — Horace
A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles… — Ramsey Clark
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also… — Charles Caleb Colton
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. — Tacitus
Where crime is taught from early years, it becomes a part of nature. — Unknown Author
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man… — Hosea Ballou
Make not thyself the judge of any man. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them. — Seneca the Younger
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca the Younger
It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the… — Robert Southey
Responsibility prevents crimes. — Edmund Burke
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. — James Ussher
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… — William Shakespeare
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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