Quotes

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

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

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

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

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

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

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.