It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Governments have tried to stop crime
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 virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
America is the land of the second chance
America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
I can tell you this on a stack of
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
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.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman
If it's near dinner-time, the foreman takes out his watch when the jury has retired, and says: "Dear me, gentlemen, ten minutes to five, I declare! I dine at five, gentlemen." "So do I," says everybody else, except two men who ought to have dined at three and seem more than half disposed to stand out in consequence. The foreman smiles, and puts up his watch:--"Well, gentlemen, what do we say, plaintiff or defendant, gentlemen?
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
