Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
To try to raise a son from inside the
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
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
The number of laws is constantly growing
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.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
