Quotes

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

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

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

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

One crime is everything; two nothing.