The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
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 going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
