Quotes

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.