Quotes

Man is condemned to be free.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

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.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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%.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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!