To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
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.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
