Convicts Quotes

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

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Moving, Animal, Rooms

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta: A Novel”, p.278, Macmillan

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• A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.

  Victor Hugo

  Fear, Criminals, Use

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Jail, Fragility

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

  Jean Genet

  Flower, Fragility, Delicacy

  "A Thief’s Journal". Book by Jean Genet, 1949.

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• People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Brother, Jail, People

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• Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.

  John R. Rice

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  John R. Rice (2000). “The Ruin of a Christian”, p.109, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Everyone of us is a potential convict.

  Ai Weiwei

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• If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Enough, Should

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• Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
  dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

  Roger Casement

  Patriotic, Fate, Pride

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• You think it's hard for me when I go in the ring and fight? That's the least of my problems. I think about the five years that I did in prison. I think about the nine years on parole. Nothing - nothing! - can compare to that struggle. I'm telling you, from being an ex-convict with 30 convictions, a degree nowhere to be found and black? I'm done.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Struggle, Fighting, Thinking

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• The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

  R. C. Sproul

  Spirit, Sin, Communicate

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2016

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• My soul is an entangled knot,
  Upon a liquid vortex wrought
  By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
  And thine doth like a convict sit,
  With marline-spike untwisting it,
  Only to find its knottiness abiding;
  Since all the tools for its untying
  In four-dimensional space are lying,
  Wherein they fancy intersperses
  Long avenues of universes,
  While Klein and Clifford fill the void
  With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
  And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Space

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• Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.

  Nora Roberts

  Song, Opportunity, Body

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.504, Penguin

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• We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

  Mervyn Peake

  Printed Word, Black, Sound

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.230, The Overlook Press

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• Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Glasses, Sea

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.67, Modern Library

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• Nowhere have I found words more powerful than those in the Psalms. Their fervid poetry cleanses one, gives one strength, brings hope in moments of darkness. Makes one look critically into oneself, convict oneself, and wash one's heart clean with one's own tears. It is the ever-burning fire of love, of gratitude, humility, and truth.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Bible, Gratitude, Powerful

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Law, Birth Place

  "A Diary of My Times". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1938.

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• In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

  Fela Kuti

  Law, Nigeria

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• Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.

  Jessica Mitford

  Wall, Would Be, Prison

  Jessica Mitford (1973). “Kind and usual punishment: the prison business”, Vintage

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• Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Peace, Commitment

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• Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Wisdom, May

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.444

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• Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

  Ma Jian

  Cutting, Thinking, Counter Culture

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• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  M. C. Gainey

  Cowboy, Past, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Regret, Reflection

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America, jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

  David Simon

  Cities, America, Criminals

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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