Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Justice renders to every one his due.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
