Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

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.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

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.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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.

There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.