Quotes

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

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.

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

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

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.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Whatever is worthy to be loved for anything is worthy of preservation. A wise and dispassionate legislator, if any such should ever arise among men, will not condemn to death him who has done or is likely to do more service than injury to society. Blocks and gibbets are the nearest objects with legislators, and their business is never with hopes or with virtues.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

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

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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

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

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

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

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

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