If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
