Quotes

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

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

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.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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

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

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

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

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

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.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.