Quotes

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

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.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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.

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

One crime has to be concealed by another.