I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
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?
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Oh who is that young sinner with the
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
