It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
