How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
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.
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.
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.
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.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Concepts of justice must have hands and
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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.
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 torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
