Quotes

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

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.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.

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!

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the 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.

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

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

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

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

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

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

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

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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.