Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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.
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.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The only effect of public punishment is
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
