Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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%.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.