Quotes

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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.

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

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

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

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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.

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

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.