Quotes

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

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.

A sick person is a prisoner.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

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!

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.