Quotes

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

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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.

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