Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
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Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
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.
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.