To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime,
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
And while God had work for Paul, he
And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
The law does not pretend to punish
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Intellectual despair results in neither
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.
