I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Man is condemned to be free.
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.
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
