Quotes

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

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

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

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.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.