To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
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.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
