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.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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.
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.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
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.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
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!
Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
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.
