I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
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.
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 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
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
