Quotes

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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 is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

Man is condemned to be free.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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