Quotes

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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.