Quotes

Justice renders to every one his due.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

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.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

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.