Quotes

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

No crime has been without a precedent.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

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

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.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

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

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

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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