Quotes

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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

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

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.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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.