Quotes

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.

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

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

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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

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.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

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

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

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.