Quotes

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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%.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

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

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.