Quotes

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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

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

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.