Injustice anywhere is a threat...
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.
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.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
No man should be judge in his own case.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
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.