Quotes

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

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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.

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