Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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!
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Vices are not crimes.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
