Quotes

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, that can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

A sick person is a prisoner.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”

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.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

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.

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

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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

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%.