Quotes

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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.

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

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

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

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!

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

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.

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.