Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Vices are not crimes.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Justice renders to every one his due.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
