Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
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.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
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.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
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.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
