Quotes

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour -- for the horse was soon tackled -- was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.