The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
