Quotes

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Justice renders to every one his due.

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

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

He who profits by a crime commits it.