Quotes

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

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

No man should be judge in his own case.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

Justice renders to every one his due.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.