Quotes

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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.

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

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.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.