The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
No man should be judge in his own case.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Vices are not crimes.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
