Quotes

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

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!

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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

Society has used the juvenile courts to create a caste system where there are throw-away people.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

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.

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

Shyness is the prison of the heart.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

I was in prison, and you came unto me. Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
~(Jesus Christ) Matthew 25:36, 40

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

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

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.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

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

It is not at the table, but in prison, that you learn who your true friends are.

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

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.

Reality becomes a prison to those who can’t get out of it.