As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
I am certain that nothing has done so
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
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.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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?
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
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.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
