Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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.

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 don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

No man should be judge in his own case.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.