No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
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.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Vices are not crimes.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
