Prison Quotes

1427 Prison quotes by 949 unique authors

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
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law. — John Y. Campbell
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
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will... — Cesare Pavese
Pardon is the virtue of victory. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Pardon ever follows sincere repentence. — Charles Spurgeon
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods. — Claudius Claudianus
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
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
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. — Unknown Author

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