Quotes

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

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.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.