So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
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.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Vices are not crimes.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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 existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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.
