Quotes

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

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

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.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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

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