Quotes

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man.

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

One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another.

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

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

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

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

Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.

When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

The number of laws is constantly growing in all countries and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at all, for it contains no element of violence or harm.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenseless!

No crime has been without a precedent.

A sick person is a prisoner.

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.

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

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.