Quotes

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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.

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

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.