There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
No man should be judge in his own case.
No man should be judge in his own case.
One of the problems that the marijuana
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.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
Shyness is the prison of the heart.
There's no greater threat to our
There's no greater threat to our independence, to our cherished freedoms and personal liberties than the continual, relentless injection of these insidious poisons into our system. We must decide whether we cherish independence from drugs, without which there is no freedom.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Wherever any one is against his will,
Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.
What restrains us from killing is partly
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can
To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom
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.
Justice is justice though it's always
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
If punishment reaches not the mind and
If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
I have never been contained except I
I have never been contained except I made the prison.
By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
The only real prison is fear, and the
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Vices are not crimes.
Vices are not crimes.
In my country we go to prison first and
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
It is impossible to go through life
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.
