Quotes

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.