Quotes

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Vices are not crimes.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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.

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.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.