Quotes

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!

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.