It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
