Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

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

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

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?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Man is condemned to be free.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

No crime has been without a precedent.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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