No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
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.
Organized crime in America takes in over
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.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
