Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
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.
