Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
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.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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!
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
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.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
