Convicts Quotes - Page 4

• And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Justice, Police

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.163, Da Capo Press

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• I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

  Nas

  Phones, Causes, Rhyme

  Song: Halftime

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• Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.

  Robert D. Hare

  Successful, Ideas, People

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• Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.

  Johnny Cash

  Audience

  "The Man in Black reaches the end of the line" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Who would you vote most likely to succeed? Bob Arum - White, Jewish, a graduate of Harvard, a Kennady Raider, United States Attorney. Don King - black, poor, out of the hard core getto of Cleveland, Ohio, numbers runner, a little confectionary dealer, ex-convict. Now who would you vote to succeed? It would be hands down........ Yet in this great land called America, I have out performed, outachieved, been more recognizable, did more, broke more records, and had more of a phenominal career, where Arum can't tie my shoe string. You understand?

  Don King

  Kings, Careers, Shoes

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• You know, if government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ... Government contains impure ingredients - as anybody who's looked at Congress can tell you. ... government practices deceptive advertising. And the merest glance at the federal budget is enough to convict the government of perjury, extortion, and fraud. ... in a nutshell: government should be against the law. Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Law, Practice, Jail

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• Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Rivers, Drug Use

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 5, 1995.

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• Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive to the individual man - whether he's a bishop, a peasant, an industrial magnate, a convict in the Sakhalin Islands, or a waiter in a restaurant. Let's begin with respect, compassion, and love for the individual - or we'll never get anywhere.

  Vasily Grossman

  Men, Compassion, Islands

  Vasily Grossman (2011). “Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)”, p.267, Random House

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• Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves; and the officious monitor is persecuted with hatred, not because his accusation is false, but because he assumes that superiority which we are not willing to grant him, and has dared to detect what we desired to conceal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Hatred, Advice

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.131

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• Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Symbols, Sex Symbol

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

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Men, Wind

  H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

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• Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Becoming, Spirit

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• And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

  Enoch

  Flesh, Judgment, Holy

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• Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Eye, Heart, Punishment

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• Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Easter, Nice, Eggs

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• Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica - that's slightly more than the total figure for New York - and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?

  Robert Fisk

  New York, Trying, Trials

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. November 30, 2001.

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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his sentence, but a child in the home of God.

  Robert William Dale

  Children, Home, Men

  Robert William Dale (1903). “The Living Christ and the Four Gospels”

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• God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.

  Craig Groeschel

  Helping, Christ, Guides

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

  Merle Haggard

  America, Prison, 1960s

  Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.salon.com. November 14, 2000.

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• It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

  Epictetus

  Advice, Upbraid, Erring

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• The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Giving, Liberty, Comfort

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.58, Moody Publishers

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• He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

  Edmund Burke

  Remember, Corruption, Accusation

  Edmund Burke (2015). “A Letter On the Affairs of America”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  Earl Warren

  Law, Police, Feelings

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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