In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.
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.
Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.
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!
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.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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.
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
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.
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
Justice renders to every one his due.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
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.
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: “It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.”
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.
No crime has been without a precedent.
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
