Quotes

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

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

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

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

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.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.