Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

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.

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

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

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.