Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
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.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
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.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
