Quotes

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.

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

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

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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.

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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

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.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.