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.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Oh who is that young sinner with the
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
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.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
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.
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.
