Quotes

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

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

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

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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

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

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.