Quotes

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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

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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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!

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, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.