Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
We are prisoners of ideas.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Man is condemned to be free.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
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 asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
