Quotes

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.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn 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.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

No crime has been without a precedent.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

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.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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.