He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
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.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
