Quotes

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Vices are not crimes.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

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

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.