Quotes

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

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.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

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.

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.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

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%.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

We are prisoners of ideas.

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.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.