If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
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 existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
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.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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 power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
