Quotes

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

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

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.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.