Quotes

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Man is condemned to be free.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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.

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

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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?

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.