The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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 existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
