Quotes

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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%.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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