Quotes

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

I existed in a world that never is - the prison of the mind.

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

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

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

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

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.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

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

Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.

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

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

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.

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

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

It becomes not a law-maker to be a law-breaker.