Quotes

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!

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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.

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.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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.