Quotes

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

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.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

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

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

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

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.

Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

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.

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 the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.

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.

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

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other; they are worse than ever when at the termination of their punishment they re-enter society.

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.