The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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.
