Quotes

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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

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.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.