Quotes

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

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

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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