Quotes

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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.

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

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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 only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.