While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
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 know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
