Karel Capek Quotes

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

The most powerful person can wind up in jail.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and it acts only through its sentence and its execution. It is not distinguishable from the application. We know it only through its imprint on our heart and our flesh: we are guilty, necessarily guilty. Guilt is like the moral thread which duplicates the thread of time.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

I should still be in jail.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

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.

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

I'm always curious how we sometimes have a different point of view when it comes to justice. And that's why people root for 'Dexter.'

You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.

I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol…

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Well, do you want me to appoint another horse thief for you.

I believe that capital punishment serves no useful purpose and is a form of revenge.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

As long as the law exists, there will be morality.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Human law is imposed on the multitude, a part of which is composed of men imperfect in virtue. Thus all the vices from which the virtuous abstain are not punished by human law, but only the more grievous ones which most people can avoid, and especially those which can hurt others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be preserved. Thus homicide, theft and the like are prohibited by human law.

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

Thou Shalt Not Steal!

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.