Quotes

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

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

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.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

The severest justice may not always be the best policy.

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

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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.

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.