Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
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Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
No man should be judge in his own case.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
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.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.