The world itself is but a large prison,
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The contagion of crime is like that of
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
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?
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
