Quotes

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.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.