To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain.
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.
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.
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
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.
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.
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.
I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
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.
No crime has been without a precedent.
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
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!
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
