A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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!
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
