The one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. —Millicent Fenwick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[Lawyer to potential client:] You have a pretty good case, Mr. Pitkin. How much justice can you afford? —From a New Yorker cartoon by J.B. Handelsman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? —Diane Glancy More about this quote Tags: justice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status. —David Mamet More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police. —Keith Richards More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. —Alison Croggon More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I don't like jail. They got the wrong kind of bars in there. —Charles Bukowski More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A cage went in search of a bird. —Franz Kafka More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. . . . It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free. —Clarence Darrow More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live in a country that is addicted to incarceration as a tool for social control. As it stands now, justice systems are extremely expensive, do not rehabilitate but in fact make the people that experience them worse, and have no evidence-based correlatives to reducing crime. Yet with that track record they continue to thrive. . . . Only an addict would see that as an OK result. —James Bell More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The county jail looked like a tall, forbidding elementary school. Seven stories of dirty-brown brick, one hundred years old and now operating at 330 percent of capacity. —Richard Price More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The central question is whether the wonderfully diverse and gifted assemblage of human beings on this earth really knows how to run a civilization. —Adlai Stevenson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. —Leo Tolstoy More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email