Quotes

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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!

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Vices are not crimes.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

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.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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.