Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

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.

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

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.

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