Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
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.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Since 1957, black people have
Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.
I never told a victim story about my
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One of the many lessons that one learns
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
