Quotes

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

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.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

A sick person is a prisoner.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

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.

Crime is a logical extension of the sort of behavior that often [is] considered perfectly respectable in legitimate business.

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

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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

In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.