Quotes

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 perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

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

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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.

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.

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.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.