A sick person is a prisoner.
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Vices are not crimes.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
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.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
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.
Man is condemned to be free.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
