Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Vices are not crimes.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
