By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
No man should be judge in his own case.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
One crime is everything; two nothing.
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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!
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
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.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
