There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
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.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Man is condemned to be free.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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.
