To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
