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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

No man should be judge in his own case.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.