Quotes

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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.

To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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!

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.