Quotes

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

No crime has been without a precedent.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

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

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

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.