On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
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.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
