Quotes

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Vices are not crimes.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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.

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

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.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.