The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Fast closed with double grills And triple gates–the cell To wicked souls is hell; But to a mind that's innocent 'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
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.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
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!
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
