Quotes

A sick person is a prisoner.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

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.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

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.

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

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.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

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

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.

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

Man is condemned to be free.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.