Quotes

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.

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

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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.

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

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%.