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.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
