Quotes

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

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

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

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.

Justice renders to every one his due.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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

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

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.