It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
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 difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The only effect of public punishment is
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.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Justice renders to every one his due.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
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.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
