One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Vices are not crimes.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
