Quotes

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

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

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

No man should be judge in his own case.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.