Quotes

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.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

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.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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

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.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

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.

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.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.