Quotes

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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

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

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

No crime has been without a precedent.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

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.