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!
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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.
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
