Quotes

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Vices are not crimes.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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

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!

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

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.

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.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.