Quotes

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

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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