One of the problems that the marijuana
One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
The idea that the sole aim of punishment
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.
They were being driven to a prison,
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
It is not at the table, but in prison,
It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.
I can work for the Lord in or out of
I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.
There are few better measures of the
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 public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Once we are destined to live out our
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more
As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
It is the deed that teaches, not the
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
In the halls of justice, the only
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
The degree of civilization in a society
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Two men look out the same prison bars;
Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
How dreadful it is when the right judge
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a
Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.
