Quotes

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

A sick person is a prisoner.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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

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

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

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

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

The uneven impact of actual enforcement measures tends to mirror and reinforce more general patterns of discrimination (along socioeconomic, racial and ethnic, sexual, and perhaps generational lines) within the society. As a consequence, such enforcement (ineffective as it may be in producing conformity) almost certainly reinforces feelings of alienation already prevalent within major segments of the population.

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.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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.

Vices are not crimes.