Quotes

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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