I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
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.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
And while God had work for Paul, he
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
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
