Quotes

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

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

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.

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.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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.

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

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

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

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.

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

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.