Quotes

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

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

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

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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.

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

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

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

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