Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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!
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
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.
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.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
