We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Justice renders to every one his due.
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.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Vices are not crimes.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
