Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Man is condemned to be free.
Man is condemned to be free.
History is full of people who went to
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
The virtue of justice consists in
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Governments have tried to stop crime
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.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
I asked a man in prison once how he
I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
They took away my money, my family, and
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!
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
On a planet that increasingly resembles
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
