History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
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.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
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.
I submit that an individual who breaks a
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
