I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
