Quotes

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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.

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

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.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.