Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
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.
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.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
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.
