I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
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.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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.
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
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.
