Quotes

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

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.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

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.

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.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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.

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.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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.

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

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!

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.