Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
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.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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.
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
