Quotes

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

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

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

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

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

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.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.