To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
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.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
There's no greater threat to our
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.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
