By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Vices are not crimes.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
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.
