Prison Quotes

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.