Quotes

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

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

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.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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.

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

While crime is punished it yet increases.