Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
The only effect of public punishment is
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
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.
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.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
