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.
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The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
It is the spirit and not the form of law
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Show me the prison, Show me the jail,
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.
The punishment can be remitted; the
The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
The contagion of crime is like that of
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.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
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.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
When you are younger you get blamed for
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
There are few better measures of the
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.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.
Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.