Quotes

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

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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!

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

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.

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.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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