Quotes

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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.

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

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.