Quotes

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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!

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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.

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

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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