Quotes

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

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

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.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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