Quotes

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

If two people fight on the street, whose fault is it? Who is the criminal? It is the government’s responsibility because the government has not educated the people to not make mistakes. The people have inadequate, incompetent education, so they make mistakes! It is such a fraud.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

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

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

Vices are not crimes.

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

The public have more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

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

While crime is punished it yet increases.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

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

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison walls.

If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.

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

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

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.

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.