Quotes

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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