Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Organized crime in America takes in over
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Faults of the head are punished in this
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Educate your children to self-control,
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.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
