When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
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.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
