Quotes

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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