Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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 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.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
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.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
