Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
While crime is punished it yet increases.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Man is condemned to be free.
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
