Quotes

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

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.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.