Experts and the educated elite have
Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
I just remember that disturbing feeling
I just remember that disturbing feeling of walking into that prison, the complete loss of privacy, the complete loss of stimulation, dignity.
The power of punishment is to silence,
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
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%.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
We have initiated programs for re-entry
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.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
There is no peace because the making of
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
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.
Well does Heaven have care that no man
Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.
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.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
The perfection of a thing consists in
The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.
If two people fight on the street, whose
If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.
