Definition, rationality, and structure
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
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
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.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
