Quotes

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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.

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.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.