Quotes

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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 am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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