Nas Quotes

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

It would not be safe to set him at liberty, neither have we sufficient ground for us to put him to death.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.... The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...

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

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

It's wrong to kill.

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.