Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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 degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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.
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.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
