Quotes

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

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

Vices are not crimes.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Crimes generally punish themselves.