Quotes

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

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

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

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

No man should be judge in his own case.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

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!

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

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!