Quotes

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.