Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Governments have tried to stop crime
Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
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?
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
