Quotes

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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