The convicts wash my shirts, as in murderer convicts and…

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

— Robert H. Jackson

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing…

— Eliot Spitzer

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

— Craig Groeschel

The man who has received this great deliverance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening his…

— Anonymous

It would be a stultification of the responsibility which the course of constitutional history has cast upon this Court to hold that in order…

— Felix Frankfurter

This is your court and you possess the force to celebrate the trial and convict me on the basis of your lists of accusations,…

— Ahmad Sa'adat

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many…

— James A. Baldwin

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…

— Robert D. Hare

If you were arrested for being kind to yourself..would there be enough evidence to convict you?

— Peter McWilliams

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…

— Vasily Grossman

Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

— Marcus Eremita

It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who…

— Christopher Hitchens

Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in…

— Vladimir Putin

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton