Quotes

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.