Quotes

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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!

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

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.