Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
