Quotes

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

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

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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?

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

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

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.