Quotes

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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

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

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.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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.

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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