Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
