Quotes

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.