Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
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.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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?
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Man is condemned to be free.
