Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking

Hunger makes a thief of any man. – Pearl S. Buck, quoted in You Said a Mouthful, edited by Ronald D. Fuchs

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. – Peter Kropotkin, Words of a Rebel