There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
No written law has been more binding
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
I was in prison, and you came unto me.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
I was put into jail as I was going to
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
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.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.