To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
Money will determine whether the accused
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I
I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up...I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through, before they could get to be as free as I was. I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch;
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
It isn't true that convicts live like
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
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.
Here the great art lies, to discern in
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Well, I don't think prisons are the
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
Why would anyone expect him to come out
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
I never told a victim story about my
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.
Law is merely the expression of the will
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
