It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
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.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
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.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
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.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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 is no peace because the making of
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 English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
