Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Women now have choices. They can be
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
