Quotes

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Man is condemned to be free.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

One crime has to be concealed by another.