Quotes

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

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

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

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

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.