Quotes

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or 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.

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.

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