Quotes

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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.

No man should be judge in his own case.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

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

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!

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!