Quotes

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

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.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

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

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

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

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.

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

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 virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

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

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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