Quotes

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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