Quotes

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.