Quotes

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

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.

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

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.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Vices are not crimes.

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

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.