Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A sick person is a prisoner.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
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?
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
