Quotes

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

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 only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.