I have never been contained except I made the prison.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
A sick person is a prisoner.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
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 object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
