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Convicts are the best audience I ever played for. -- Johnny Cash
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics. -- Traian Basescu
Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order. -- George Jackson
People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands. -- Monica Johnson
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
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin. -- Saint Basil
Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. -- Eliot Spitzer
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair. -- Dorothea Dix
I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by 'over-work.' A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire. -- Dorothea Dix
I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes. -- Susan Orlean
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. -- Jean Genet
The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin. -- R. C. Sproul
My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics." -- Traian Basescu
Prison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out. -- Jessica Mitford
It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. -- Epictetus
I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.. -- Bobby Sands
Sir, they are a race of convicts and ought to be grateful for anything we allow them short of hanging. -- Samuel Johnson
Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit who consoles. -- Charles Spurgeon
Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful? -- Karl Kraus
Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers. -- Pat Buchanan
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
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it. -- Sydney J. Harris
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
So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised. -- Susan B. Anthony
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 such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom. -- Vladimir Putin
For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins. -- Joseph Prince

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