Quotes

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.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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!

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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