In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
Prison continues, on those who are
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
