One crime is everything; two nothing.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
