Quotes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

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.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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 guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.