Quotes

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Justice renders to every one his due.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

We are prisoners of ideas.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.