Quotes

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.