Quotes

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Justice renders to every one his due.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.