A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
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.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
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.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
