Quotes

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

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

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

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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