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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.
A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;
INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.
discombobulation
derision. (Psalm
the not uncommon sexual humiliation of priests as a prelude to their murder,
A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
The violation of the inner person is the greatest territorial crime of all.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Justice deferred is justice denied.
Her victim - of necessity she must put him away from her - he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. What was
To have entered a strange house, and to have consumed the best part of a cake without the knowledge or consent of the lawful owners, was a solecism worthy of severe retribution.
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
The pleasing punishment that women bare....
a gradual leaking away of all conviction
We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.
Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity.
Without injustices,
the name of justice
would mean what?
Court ... a place where they dispense with justice.
Justice is putting everything in its proper place
Unforgiveness and offense act like a shackle that prevent a person from receiving to their full potential.
There are offences given and offences not given but taken.
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
This is a very grave matter, punishable by ... well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.
Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.
All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life".
Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts.
In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?
grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
What is desecration?" He spit again, eying him and Solomon realized he had tobacco in his lower lip. "You like playin with the dead, son?" "No sir," Solomon said. "Not at all." "Well you is.
In the name of justice the most savage and revolting acts are perpetrated.
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman.
The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her reason.
Tremble, thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes
Unwhipped of justice.
Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.
Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?
an incantation of hatred.
Don't try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I'd rather dirty up.
What you violate you face the consequence
DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.
The punishment I was given was this existence.
Problems. (Id. at 1379-83.) In particular, the court pointed
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
A small unkindness is a great offence.
Offenses that are held on to lead to death.
A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
expelled from the garden.
Some things you sentence yourself to life for.
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
The idea that the law should punish what is rude; that government should protect our tender sensibilities from those who would - quite often with shallow motivations but sometimes with deeper and more serious complaints - challenge our national certainties and rituals, should alarm and anger us.
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
An ill deed cannot bring honor.
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
Crime is a violation of people and relationships. It creates obligations to make things right. Justice involves the victim, the offender and the community in a search for solutions which promote repair, reconciliation and reassurance
The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Art has an obligation to offend
An odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.
It is one of the maxims of the civil law, that definitions are hazardous.
Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.
Every libel, which is called famosus libellus, is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment.
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.
At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..
What a greater crime. Than loss of time.
Certain kinds of honor could not be lost without demanding that one consecrate oneself thereafter - no matter how unsuited and unprepared - to a life of revenge. I
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.
Complaint is poverty.
The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.
There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Not giving a fuck and not being able to give a fuck.
Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.
Honour forbid! at whose unrivall'd shrine 105 Ease, pleasure, virtue, all our sex resign. Methinks already I your tears survey, Already hear the horrid things they say, Already see you a degraded toast, And all your honour in a whisper lost! 110 How shall I, then, your helpless fame
Triteness is the penalty of appropriation.
If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.
Contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.
My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.
It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.