Quotes

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!

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

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

He was a first-time nonviolent possible offender, ... And under the mandatory minimums, he was put in prison for 15 years. Not only does the punishment not fit the crime, but the mandatory minimums don't give judges any discretion to look at the background of the case, to read into the specifics of the case. I don't know a judge who really is in favor of the mandatory minimums.

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

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

I know not whether laws be right, or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

Hard cases, it is said, make bad law.

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.

It is safer that a bad man should not be accused, than that he should be acquitted.

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

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

Steal goods and you’ll go to prison, steal lands and you are a king.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they’ll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

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