The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
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.
The severest justice may not always be
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
If you want total security, go to
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is
A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
I don't like being famous - it is like a
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
