Quotes

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

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.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

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.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

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

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

He who profits by a crime commits it.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.