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.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
He was a first-time nonviolent possible
He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.
