It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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.
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.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
