Quotes

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

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.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.