Quotes

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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 man should be judge in his own case.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

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

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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.

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

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.