Quotes

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

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.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.