He who profits by a crime commits it.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
No man should be judge in his own case.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
