History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Fast closed with double grills
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.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
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.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
