Quotes

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

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

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.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Man is condemned to be free.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

No crime has been without a precedent.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.