What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
