Quotes

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

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

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!

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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