Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
