It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
The worst of prison life, he thought,
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Crimes lead one into another; they who
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The uneven impact of actual enforcement
The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
I am certain that nothing has done so
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
