Quotes

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

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

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.

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.