Quotes

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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.

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

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

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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.

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.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

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

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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.

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.

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.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Man is condemned to be free.