Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
