While we have prisons it matters little
While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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.
Fast closed with double grills
Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Self is the only prison that can bind
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
So justice while she winks at crimes,
So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
The common argument that crime is caused
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
Fear can be like a prison. It is,
Fear can be like a prison. It is, however, a self made prison. Many are imprisoned by fear. No one else can liberate them from this prison. Others may inspire them but they must liberate themselves.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
One should respect public opinion
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
The most anxious man in a prison is the
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
It is better that ten guilty persons
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.
You utter a vow, or forge a signature,
You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
Society has used the juvenile courts to
Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.
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.
It becomes not a law-maker to be a
It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
Some laws of state aimed at curbing
Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
No man survives when freedom fails. The
No man survives when freedom fails. The best men rot in filthy jails, and those who cry 'appease, appease' are hanged by those they tried to please.
You stuff somebody into the American
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
