Quotes

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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

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

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

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.