Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
A sick person is a prisoner.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
