Quotes

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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

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

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

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.