Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
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.
Man is condemned to be free.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
