Quotes

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

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

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.”

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

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

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.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.