Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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.
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.
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.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
