Quotes

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.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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!

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

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%.

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

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

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