Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
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.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
We are prisoners of ideas.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
