Quotes

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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

Justice renders to every one his due.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

To be at peace in crime! Ah, who can thus flatter himself.

No obligation to justice does force a man to be cruel, or to use the sharpest sentence.

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.

By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

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

Clemency alone makes us equal to the gods.

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.

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

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.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.

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

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

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

He who profits by a crime commits it.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.