Quotes

You utter a vow, or forge a signature, and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman, or prison.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

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

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.