If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punishe...d: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs--unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and ...felony criminal defendents who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be ... better to be judged by one's superiors than by one's peers. ...In a trial before his superiors, any criminal would... stand a chance of justice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten ...to to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all... other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Homer sweeps us away by the irresistible movement of lines through a whole passage to a splendid climax. What counts is the single...ness of his effect, the unbroken maintenance of a heroic or tragic mood, the concentration on some action vividly imagined and clearly portrayed without irrelevance or second thoughts or even those hints that lure into bypaths of fancy and suggest that there is more in the words than is obvious at first sight. But in Virgil, great though the paragraphs are, compelling though the climax is when it is reached, we are more concerned with the details, with each small effect and each deftly placed word, than with the whole. We linger over the richness of single phrases, over the "pathetic half-lines," over the precision or potency with which a word illuminates a sentence or a happy sequence of sounds imparts an inexplicable charm to something that might otherwise have been trivial. Of course, Homer has his magical phrases and Virgil his bold effects, but the distinction stands. It is a matter of composition, of art, and it marks the real difference between the two kinds of epic, which are not so much "authentic" and "literary" as oral and written.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women are... the reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisp...rudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »