Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

A sick person is a prisoner.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

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

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.