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.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.

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

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.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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.