Quotes

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

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.

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.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Justice renders to every one his due.