I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
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.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
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.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
I have been studying how I may compare
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.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
