Quotes

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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 worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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

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.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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

A sick person is a prisoner.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.