Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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 is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.