It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
