Quotes

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

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

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 is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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.

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