Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
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.
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.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
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!
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
