Quotes

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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.

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.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.