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Many a wise person has pondered the plight of the prisoner. From Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde to Fyodor Dostoevsky, the issue of imprisonment has inspired many heartfelt remarks. The following quotes speak to our intellect as well as our emotions. In a society that rushes to warehouse human lives, we urge you to slow down, pause, and contemplate the unique reality of imprisonment. We hope you will find yourself thinking - perhaps even feeling - that we can do better.

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Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
~Vittorio Alfieri   
 

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
~Woody Allen   
 

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
~Marcellinus Ammianus   
 

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
~Bias of Priene   
 

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
~Henry Thomas Buckle   
 

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
~Mazo de la Roche   
 

One crime is everything; two nothing.
~Dorothee DeLuzy   
 

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
~Vittorio Alfieri   
 

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
~Benjamin Disraeli   
 

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
~Oliver Goldsmith   
 

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