Crimes generally punish themselves.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
