Quotes

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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!

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

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

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

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.