Quotes

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and 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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.