Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
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.
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.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
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.
