Quotes About Justice

The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to social legislation.

Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.

Law and order is the first and topmost priority.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

Throughout my career, I have made rooting out public corruption a top priority.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.

He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

It's a monstrous idea to put people in prison and keep them there.

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

Keeping a guy in prison costs 50,000 bucks a year. Executing one costs a couple million.

I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.

If you've been running a business for 38 years, you're approaching your 66th birthday, you've never owed a man a penny or done anyone any grievance in your life, and you feel hard done-by and try to protect yourself and your family, but go to prison, well if that's the society we're living in, I'm happy to accept that.

We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

Now that private prison companies have found that they can make a killing on mass incarceration, these private prison companies are now in the business of building detention centers for suspected illegal immigrants.

In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.

My father, David Gilbert, is in prison in New York. He is lucky that he has a single cell, not shared with another person. His cell is about eight feet by eight feet.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.