Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

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.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

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.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.