There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I sometimes wish that people would put a
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Assassination is the extreme form of
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
Body is a home, a prison and a grave.
The world is a prison in which solitary
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
To seek the redress of grievances by
To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Governments have tried to stop crime
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 am certain that nothing has done so
I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
On average, drug prisoners spend more
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.
Experts and the educated elite have
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.
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
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.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
Federal prison, if you get any of it,
Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.
The only difference between me and my
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
