Quotes

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

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.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.