What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
Let us remember that justice must be
Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.
A variety in punishment is of utility,
A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
Definition, rationality, and structure
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
When is conduct a crime, and when is a
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall
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.
I wrote a million words in the first
I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.
In a civilized society, all crimes are
In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Most people fancy themselves innocent of
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
A country is in a bad state, which is
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
Governments have tried to stop crime
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.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Laws do not persuade just because they
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Pardon is the virtue of victory.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
