Quotes

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

No man should be judge in his own case.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.