Prison Quotes

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor.

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.

We have initiated programs for re-entry offenders, since some 500,000 to 600,000 offenders will come out of prison each year for the next three or four years. We want to have positive alternatives when they come back to the community.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

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.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.