Quotes

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

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

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

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

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.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

No man should be judge in his own case.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.