Quotes

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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.

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

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.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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!

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Justice renders to every one his due.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.