Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
We shall fight against them, throw them
We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
A Sunday school is a prison in which
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Civilization is maintained by a very few
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
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.
It is certain that the study of human
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
I existed in a world that never is - the
I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Reality becomes a prison to those who
Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
He who does not prevent a crime when he
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't
Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
