Quotes

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

No man should be judge in his own case.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

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

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.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

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.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it.

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.