Quotes

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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.

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 world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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 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.

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.