Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
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.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
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?
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
