Quotes

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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

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.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.