If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
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.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
