Quotes

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

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.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

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