Quotes

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

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

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

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

No man should be judge in his own case.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

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