How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
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.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
