Quotes

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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?

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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.

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.