Quotes

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

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.

We are prisoners of ideas.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.