Quotes

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

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.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

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.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

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.

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

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

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.