Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
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.
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
If you treat prisoners well, they will be less angry, less inclined to violence inside prison, less likely to provoke violent actions by guards, less likely to have reason to file brutality lawsuits that cost taxpayers a bundle and waste administrators' time. And most important, well-treated prisoners will be less likely to leave prison angrier, more vicious and more inclined to criminal behavior than when they went in.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
