You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
No crime has been without a precedent.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
