One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
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.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
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.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
Governments have tried to stop crime
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
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.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.