Quotes

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

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

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.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

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.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.