Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.