Quotes

No crime has been without a precedent.

A sick person is a prisoner.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.