As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
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.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Since 1957, black people have
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
