Quotes

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

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.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.