Quotes

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

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

No crime has been without a precedent.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

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

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

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.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobody cares who loves or hates him, what he looks like, what he did with his life. Nobody reacts to him unless he gives trouble. Nobody abuses him. All that is asked of him is that he go quietly to the right cell and remain quiet when he gets there. There is nothing to fight against, nothing to be mad at. The jailers are quiet men without animosity or sadism.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

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

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

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

He who profits by a crime commits it.