Quotes

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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.

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

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

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

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.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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

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

We are prisoners of ideas.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.