It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
