Lane Garrison Quotes

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

We have crime without punishment.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail - that's no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

They used to take your horse and if they were caught they got hung for it. Now they take your car, and if they are caught it's a miracle.

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

If I was a bad character that got away with murder like we see on other shows, I do not think I would like it because that sends a message that you can do these horrible things and never pay for it.

To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.