Quotes

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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.

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.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

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.