Quotes

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

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