Quotes

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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

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

One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.

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

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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

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.

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

Shyness is the prison of the heart.