Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Vices are not crimes.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
