Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
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.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
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.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
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 asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
