Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
