Quotes

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

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

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

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

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