Quotes

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.

No crime has been without a precedent.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

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

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

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.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

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.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.