Quotes

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

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.