Care should be taken that the punishment
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Organized crime in America takes in over
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
There is no peace because the making of
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
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.
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?
