Quotes

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

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

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

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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