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.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
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.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
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.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
The reformative effect of punishment is
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
