Quotes

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

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!

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Vices are not crimes.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

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

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

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