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.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
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.
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.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
There's no greater threat to our
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.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
When it comes to freedom, we are but
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
