It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
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.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
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.
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.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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?
I am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
