Quotes

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.