Quotes

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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

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.

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

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.