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.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
We judge ourselves by what we feel
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
While crime is punished it yet
While crime is punished it yet increases.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
In jail a man has no personality. He is
In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
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.
I know not whether laws be right, or
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
The torment of human frustration,
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
No matter how you seem to fatten on a
No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
To make punishments efficacious, two
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
