Quotes

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

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

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Prison makes you a better judge of character. You pick up on people much faster.

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

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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.”

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

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

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.

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

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

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

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

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

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

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

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%.