Prison Quotes

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Vices are not crimes.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.