Quotes

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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!

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.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Vices are not crimes.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

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%.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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.

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