Quotes

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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 man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

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

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.