The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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 makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
It was only when I lay there on the
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
