It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
I have been studying how I may compare
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Women have worked hard; starved in
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 mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Experts and the educated elite have
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Intellectual despair results in neither
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.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
