Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
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.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
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.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
