Quotes

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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?

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

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

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

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

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