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.
They took away my money, my family, and
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!
Intellectual despair results in neither
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Any punishment that does not correct,
Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Prison, dungeons, blessed places where
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.
In prisons, those things withheld from
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
We who live in prison, and in whose
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Adversities such as being homeless and
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
Society prepares the crime; the criminal
Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.
Clemency alone makes us equal to the
Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
The worst prison is not of stone. It is
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
We don't seem to be able to check crime,
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
I am certain that nothing has done so
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.
