What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
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.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
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.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
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.
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.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
