Quotes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

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.

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 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

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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

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.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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.

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

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.