Quotes

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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.

The best situation of all, and one frequently utilized, is for jails and prisons to allow volunteer ministers of all faiths to enter prisons and offer their services to the inmates who want them. That way, the religious needs of inmates are met but without government funds being spent.

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.

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.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

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!

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

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.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

No man should be judge in his own case.