Quotes

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

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%.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

To seek the redress of grievances by going to law, is like sheep running for shelter to a bramble bush.

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

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Well does Heaven have care that no man secures happiness by crime.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Vices are not crimes.

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

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

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

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

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

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.

Pardon is the virtue of victory.

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

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.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.