Quotes

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.