Quotes

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

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

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.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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 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!

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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