While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
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.
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
Whatever is worthy to be loved for
Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
Faults of the head are punished in this
Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.
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.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
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 difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
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.
