Quotes

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

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

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel--dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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.

Man is condemned to be free.

It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

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

I can work for the Lord in or out of prison.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

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.

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.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

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

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

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

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.

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.

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

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

No written law has been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.