By noiselessly going to a prison a
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
We are prisoners of ideas.
We are prisoners of ideas.
Our task must be to free ourselves from
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.
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and
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.
I don't like jail, they got the wrong
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison,
Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.
They're not supposed to show prison
They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
They took away my money, my family, and
They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!
No obligation to justice does force a
No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.
No crime has been without a precedent.
No crime has been without a precedent.
There are only two places in the world
There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
To try to raise a son from inside the
To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.
~Jim Bakker
The object of punishment is prevention
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
He who profits by a crime commits it.
We're in a war. People who blast some
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.
It is safer that a bad man should not be
It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.
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.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
One crime is everything; two nothing.
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
There are dreadful punishments enacted
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves; but it were much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so to be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and dying for it.
Punishment, that is the justice for the
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.
The public have more interest in the
The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
The solution to our drug problem is not
The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.
I am an expert of electricity. My father
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
