Quotes

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

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.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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!

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.