To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
