Quotes

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

No man should be judge in his own case.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.