Quotes

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Man is condemned to be free.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

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

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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 public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.