You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
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.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
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.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
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.
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
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.
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.