Alger Hiss Quotes

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

Petition your state legislatures to pardon every convict in their several penitentiaries, blessing them as they go, and saying to them, in the name of the Lord, go thy way and sin no more. Advise your legislators when they make laws for larceny, burglary or any felony, to make the penalty applicable to work upon roads, public works, or any place where the culprit can be taught more wisdom and more virtue; and become more enlightened. Rigor and seclusion will never do as much to reform the propensities of man, as reason and friendship. Murder only can claim confinement or death. Let the penitentiaries be turned into seminaries of learning, where intelligence, like the angels of heaven, would banish such fragments of barbarism.

A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted; and by which, during that term, a portion of the prison employment shall be for, and the product thereof be faithfully paid over to, the support of the criminal’s family; and by which our so-called prisons shall be virtually transformed into vast reformatory workshops, from which the unfortunate may emerge to be useful members of society, instead of the alienated citizens they now are.

Prison is not meant to be comfortable. It's not meant to be somewhere anyone would ever want to go back to.

The meek may inherit the earth, but they don't get in to Harvard.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

It is shocking how much a day-care center is like a prison. They both have security cameras with walled exercise yards. Prisons are permanent day cares for people permanently in time-out - convicts.

We'll get way further if we educate people and not lock them up.

I returned to Pune in the 90s to do my MBA from the University of Pune as in that period there were not many MBA institutes in the city!

The political elite prefers to see criminals as victims in need of therapy and TLC.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.'

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

When those who are educated using their education to exploit those who aren't. That's what the sub-prime scandal represents - people of education using it at the expense of others. At Jazz at Lincoln Center, we have 22 educational programs. Not just the word but the substance of education is guided by the arts.

The criminal left belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary.

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.

The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice - in Europe where rehab is supposed to be integral, we have no way of rehabilitating skilled hackers. On the contrary what we do is we demonize them and continue to do so after they come out of jail because we restrict their access to computers by law. Crazy world, crazy people.