Quotes

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

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Vices are not crimes.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.