Quotes

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

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

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.