Quotes

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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!

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

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

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.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.