Quotes

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

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

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

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

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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?

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

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.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

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

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.

No crime has been without a precedent.