Quotes

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

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

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

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

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

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

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.