To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Vices are not crimes.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
