It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Women now have choices. They can be
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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
