Quotes

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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.

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

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.