The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
We have our own system, ... and
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
If we look at Houston, which is a very
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
