Quotes

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

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

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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 torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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