Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Justice renders to every one his due.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
No man should be judge in his own case.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40
The severest justice may not always be the best policy.
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
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.
