Quotes

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.