As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
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.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
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.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
