Quotes

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.