The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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.
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.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
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 is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
They were being driven to a prison,
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
