Quotes

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

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 you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

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!

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

Vices are not crimes.

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

Body is a home, a prison and a grave.

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

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

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

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

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.

Trial by jury itself, instead of being a security to persons who are accused, shall be a delusion, a mockery, and a snare.

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.