Top 5 Jack Henry Abbott Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

2. “Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

3. “To illustrate: to walk ten miles in an enclosed space of ten feet is not really movement. There are not ten miles of space, only time.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

4. “The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state caused by the body... William James described this relationship when he said we become sad because we shed tears: we do not shed tears because we are sad.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

5. “I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, “I am only human” – as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

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