Quotes

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

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

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

One crime is everything; two nothing.