Quotes

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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 contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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

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.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

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 trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.