Quotes

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Man is condemned to be free.

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.