Quotes

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.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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

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

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

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.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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

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

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

While crime is punished it yet increases.