A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
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.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
