Quotes

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

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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.

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

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.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.