Quotes

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

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.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.