No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
We are prisoners of ideas.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
