We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
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.
