Quotes

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

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.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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