Quotes

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Justice renders to every one his due.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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 name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

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.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

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

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.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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.

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

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.