Quotes

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

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

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. That is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

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.

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

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

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.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

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.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Prison, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible because they are the crossroads of all the evil in the world. One cannot commit evil in hell.

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

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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.

No crime has been without a precedent.

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.

To trial bring her stolen charms, and let her prison be my arms.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.