Quotes

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Man is condemned to be free.

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

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

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

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

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

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.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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 best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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

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.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

Corporal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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