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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
Faults of the head are punished in this
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.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
If you share the crime of your friend,
If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.
Every instance of a man's suffering the
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
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 only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
They were being driven to a prison,
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!
One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
Before we can diminish our sufferings
Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Women have worked hard; starved in
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
The difference between tax avoidance and
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
