Quotes

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.