Quotes

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

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!

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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

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

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

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

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.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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.