Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

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

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!

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

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

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.

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

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.