Quotes

Vices are not crimes.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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.

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

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

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.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.