Quotes

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

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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

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