Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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

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.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

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

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

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.