Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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 you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
