To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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
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.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
