He who profits by a crime commits it.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
