Quotes

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

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

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.