We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Justice renders to every one his due.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
