Quotes

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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.

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.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

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.