There is a point at which even justice
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
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.
Liberty is rendered even more precious
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Overlook our deeds, since you know that
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
A sick person is a prisoner.
A sick person is a prisoner.
I never saw a man who looked With such a
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Mere factual innocence is no reason not
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
In prison, you get the chance to see who
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
One crime has to be concealed by
One crime has to be concealed by another.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Justice renders to every one his due.
I am certain that nothing has done so
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.
Educate your children to self-control,
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
Hanging was the worst use a man could be
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
Taught from infancy that beauty is
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
If we were brought to trial for the
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
I have been studying how I may compare
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
What is crime amongst the multitude, is
What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
The number of laws is constantly growing
The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
One man meets an infamous punishment for
One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
He who opens a school door, closes a
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
