Quotes

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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