We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
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.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
The English laws punish vice; the
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
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.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
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.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
