Quotes

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

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.

I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.

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

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.