Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

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.

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

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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

I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

Justice renders to every one his due.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.