It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
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 best situation of all, and one
The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.
Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
I know not whether laws be right, or
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
The refined punishments of the spiritual
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
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.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
