The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
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.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
