The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
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.”
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
There are few better measures of the
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Corporal punishment falls far more
Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
If you want total security, go to
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.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
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.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
