Quotes

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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.

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.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.