Quotes

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Man is condemned to be free.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

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.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.