While crime is punished it yet increases.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
~James Bell
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was.
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
