He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
There is no peace because the making of
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.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
