Quotes

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.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

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

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?