Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
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.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
