Quotes

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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.

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

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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 never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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