Crime Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison, the only house in a slave…

— Henry David Thoreau

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?”

— Ruthy Alon

“Prisons are built to break men, and when men are broken society has consummated its revenge”

— Jan Valtin

“Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the…

— Nelson Mandela

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime,…

— Howard Zinn

“I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But…

— Fidel Castro

“The illusion of freedom is just another sort of prison-”

— Lisa Mantchev

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

“He proceeded on the theory that confinement within the walls of the prison was punishment. That the law never intended to confine prisoners within…

— Lewis E. Lawes

“[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.”

— Angela Y. Davis