Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.”
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
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.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
