Quotes

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

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.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

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

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

A sick person is a prisoner.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

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

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

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.