We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Vices are not crimes.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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 was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
