Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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!

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

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

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.