What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
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.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
There is no peace because the making of
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.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
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.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
