Quotes

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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.

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

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Vices are not crimes.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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.

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

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

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!

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.