Quotes

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.