Quotes

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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.

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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