Quotes

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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.

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

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.