Quotes

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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 isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

No crime has been without a precedent.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.