Quotes

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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

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.

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