So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
A sick person is a prisoner.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
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.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
