Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.