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.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
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.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
There is no greater punishment of
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
They were being driven to a prison,
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
