Quotes

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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.

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