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.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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.
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.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
