Quotes

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

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.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

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.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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

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

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.

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

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

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

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

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Before we can diminish our sufferings from the ill-controlled aggressive assaults of fellow citizens, we must renounce the philosophy of punishment, the obsolete, vengeful penal attitude. In its place we would seek a comprehensive, constructive social attitude - therapeutic in some instances, restraining in some instances, but preventive in its total social impact. In the last analysis this becomes a question of personal morals and values. No matter how glorified or how piously disguised, vengeance as a human motive must be personally repudiated by each and every one of us.