While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
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.
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.
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
Man is condemned to be free.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
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.
The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!
The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.
Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.
