Quotes

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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

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.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

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

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

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.

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.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.