Quotes

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

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

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.