Quotes

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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!

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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

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.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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