Quotes

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Vices are not crimes.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Man is condemned to be free.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.