Quotes

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

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.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

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.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

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

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

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

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

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.