The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
We are prisoners of ideas.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
