Quotes

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Vices are not crimes.

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.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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.

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.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.