A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
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.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Probably the only place where a man can
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
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.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
