Quotes

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

No man should be judge in his own case.

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking…is freedom.

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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.

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

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

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

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.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

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