Quotes

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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

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.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

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

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

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

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.

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

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