I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
The contagion of crime is like that of
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 can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
