Crimes generally punish themselves.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
