Quotes

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

Man is condemned to be free.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

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

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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.

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

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.