A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
