There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
No man should be judge in his own case.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
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.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows.
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
