Quotes

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

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

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

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!

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.