No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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 is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
He had drawn many a thousand of these
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
