Quotes

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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!

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.