The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
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.
To trial bring her stolen charms, and
To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.
Prison makes you a better judge of
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
A just chastisement may benefit a man,
A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.
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.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Every crime has, in the moment of its
Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
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.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
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.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us,
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
