Quotes

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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 power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

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.

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!

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

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.

There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

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